Leavitt & Co.: CATALOGUE OF A VALUABLE PRIVATE LIBRARY, COMPRISING AN EXTENSIVE AND SELECT COLLECTION OF CHOICE BOOKS, IN EVERY DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE, Embracing Fine London Editions of the Best Standard Works, and an immense number of Rare, Curious, and Recherche Boo, 18590516,

Auction Details

Auction Date: May 16, 1859 - May 16, 1859

Page Size: 5010 items in 51 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
3886a		ROME:--History of Rome (L. U. K.)	Lond.	1836	USD -	Unknown
3887		ROME:--Hooke's Roman history		1738	USD -	Unknown
3888	Kip (W. J.)	ROME:--Christmas holydays in Rome	N. Y.	1846	USD -	Unknown
3888		ROME:--Lafon, Rome ancien en modern	Par.		USD -	Unknown
3889	Lumisden (A.)	ROME:--Remarks on the antiquities of Rome and its environs	Lond.	1812	USD -	Unknown
3890	Lynam (Robt)	ROME:--History of the Roman emperors		1850	USD -	Unknown
3891		ROME:--Michelet's History of the Roman republic	Lond.	1847	USD -	Unknown
3892		ROME:--Perret, Catacombes de Rome	Par.	1852	USD -	Unknown
3893		ROME:--Pinelli's Views in Rome			USD -	Unknown
3894		ROME:--Rankin, Historical researches on the wars and sports of the Moguls and Romans, in which elephants and wild beasts were employed	Lond.	1826	USD -	Unknown
3895		ROME:--Roma antica e moderna con duocento e piu figure in Rome	Rome	1765	USD -	Unknown
3896	Silius Italicus	ROME:--The second Punick war between Hannibal and the Romans	Lond.	1672	USD -	Unknown
3897	M. La Rochere	ROME:--Souvenirs religieux, historiques, artistiques, de l'expedition Francaise en 1849 et '50	Tours	1853	USD -	Unknown
3898		ROME:--Suetonius, Lives of the twelve Caesars			USD -	Unknown
3900		ROME:--ROSCOE'S Description of the London and Birmingham railway	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
3901	ROSCOE (W.)	ROME:--Life of Lorenzo de Medici	Phila.	1842	USD -	Unknown
3902	ROSCOE (Wm.)	ROME:--ROSCOE (Wm.), Life of	Bost.	1853	USD -	Unknown
3903	ROSCOE (Wm.)	ROME:--ROSCOE (Wm.) Poetical Works	Lond.	1850	USD -	Unknown
3904	RORDANZ (C. W.)	ROME:--European commerce, last list of tariffs, &c. &c.	Bost.	1819	USD -	Unknown
3905	ROSE (H. J.)	ROME:--New general biographical dictionary	Lond.	1853	USD -	Unknown
3906	ROTTECK (Dr.)	ROME:--General history of the world, from the earliest times to 1831	Phila.	1840	USD -	Unknown
3907	Rous (G.)	ROME:--Letter to the Right Honorable Edmund Burke in reply to his appeal from the new to the old whigs	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
3908	ROUSSEAU (J. J.)	ROME:--OEuvres completes. Classee par ordre de Matieres		1788	USD -	Unknown
3909	ROUSSEAU (J. J.)	ROME:--Emilie; or, De l'education	Par.	1762	USD -	Unknown
3910	ROUSSEAU (J. J.)	ROME:--Letters on the elements of botany addressed to a lady	Lond.	1815	USD -	Unknown
3911	ROUSSEAU (J. J.)	ROME:--Emilias and Sophia, translated	Lond.	1767	USD -	Unknown
3912	ROUSSEAU (J. J.)	ROME:--Julia; or, the New Eloisa	Edin.	1794	USD -	Unknown
3913	ROWE (Mrs. E.)	ROME:--Letters from the dead to the living	Lond.	1740	USD -	Unknown
3914	ROWE (N.)	ROME:--ROWE (N.), Works	Lond.	1756	USD -	Unknown
3920		ROYAD SOCIETY:--Abstracts of the papers printed in the philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London	Lond.	1832	USD -	Unknown
3921		RUNIC POETRY:--Five pieces of Runic poetry	Lond.	1763	USD -	Unknown
3922		RUNIC POETRY:--RUSH'S (Envoy extraordinary from the United States') Residence at the court of London. Comprising much important historical information	Lond.	1845	USD -	Unknown
3926		RUSSIA:--Bell's (of Antermony) Travels from St. Petersburgh to various parts of Asia	Edin.	1805	USD -	Unknown
3927	Castera (J.)	RUSSIA:--History of Catharine II. of Russia	Lond.	1800	USD -	Unknown
3928	Damlefsky's (A. M.)	RUSSIA:--Russian campaign of 1814, in France		1840	USD -	Unknown
3929	Eustaphiae (A.)	RUSSIA:--Reflections, notes, and original anecdotes	Bost.	1814	USD -	Unknown
3930	Lyall (Dr. R.)	RUSSIA:--Character of the Russians and a detailed history of Moscow	Lond.	1823	USD -	Unknown
3931	Macmichael (W.)	RUSSIA:--Journey from Moscow to Constantinople in 1817-18	Lond.	1819	USD -	Unknown
3932		RUSSIA:--Manstein's Memoirs of Russia	Lond.	1770	USD -	Unknown
3933		RUSSIA:--Peter the First, History of the life of	Lond.	1739	USD -	Unknown
3934		RUSSIA:--Peter the Third, History of, and Catherine II., of Russia	Lond.	1798	USD -	Unknown
3935		RUSSIA:--Picture of St. Petersburgh			USD -	Unknown
3936		RUSSIA:--Rabbe's History of Russia, from the foundation of the monarchy to the close of the Hungarian war, tinted illustrations of the cities, ports, &c.			USD -	Unknown
3937	Russell (W. H.)	RUSSIA:--History of the Crimean war from the landing at Gallipoli to the death of Lord Raglan	Lond.	1856	USD -	Unknown
3937a	Russell (Lady)	RUSSIA:--Russell (Lady), Letters of	Lond.	1825	USD -	Unknown
3938	John	RUSSIA:--Collection of original pieces	Springfield, Mass.	1786	USD -	Unknown
3939	Russell (Wm.)	RUSSIA:--History of America from the discovery by Columbus to the conclusion of the late war	Lond.	1778	USD -	Unknown
3940	Sauer (Martin)	RUSSIA:--Account of Billing's geographical and astronomical expedition to the northern parts of Russia and of the Islands in the Eastern Ocean, stretching to the American coast	Lond.	1802	USD -	Unknown
3941	Schnitzler (J. H.)	RUSSIA:--Secret history of the court and government of Russia, under Alexander and Nicholas	Lond.	1847	USD -	Unknown
3942		RUSSIA:--Stories of Russia, Siberia, Poland, and Circassia	Lond.	1853	USD -	Unknown
3943		RUSSIA:--Russian views, a collection of pictures of St. Petersburgh	Lond.	1815	USD -	Unknown
3944		RUSSIA:--SABBATH Bells chimed by the poets	Phila.	1859	USD -	Unknown
3945	SABINE (Lorenzo)	RUSSIA:--American loyalists; or, Biographical sketches of the adherents to the British crown in the war of the revolution	Bost.	1847	USD -	Unknown
3946		RUSSIA:--SACRED Harp	Lond.	1850	USD -	Unknown
3947		RUSSIA:--SADDLEBAGS' Journey to the gold diggings	N. Y.		USD -	Unknown
3948		RUSSIA:--SAILOR BOY	Concord	1831	USD -	Unknown
3949		RUSSIA:--SAILORS' Chronicle, or authentic and interesting narratives of remarkable shipwrecks	Lond.	1827	USD -	Unknown
3950		RUSSIA:--SAINTINE'S Picciola, the prisoner of Fenestrella; or, Captivity captive	Phila.	1856	USD -	Unknown
3951	SAND (G.)	RUSSIA:--Indiana, a novel	Phil.		USD -	Unknown
3952	SAND (G.)	RUSSIA:--Consuelo	N. Y.	1851	USD -	Unknown
3953	SAND (G.)	RUSSIA:--Idem	N .Y.	1847	USD -	Unknown
3954	SAND (G.)	RUSSIA:--Jacques	N. Y.	1847	USD -	Unknown
3955	SAND (G.)	RUSSIA:--Oberman	par.	1845	USD -	Unknown
3956	SAND (G.)	RUSSIA:--Galerie des femmes, par le bibliophile Jacob	Par.	1843	USD -	Unknown
3956a	SANDERSON (John)	RUSSIA:--Biography of signers of the Declaration of Independence	Phila.	1823	USD -	Unknown
3957	Smyth (W. H.)	SARDINIA:--Sketch of the present state of the island of Sardinia	Lond.	1828	USD -	Unknown
3958	Bingham (Hiram)	SANDWICH ISLADS:--A residence of 21 years in the Sandwich Islands, or, the civil, religious, and political history of those islands	Hart.	1847	USD -	Unknown
3959	Byron (Captain Lord)	SANDWICH ISLADS:--Voyage of H. M. S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands	Lond.	1826	USD -	Unknown
3960	Ellis (Wm.)	SANDWICH ISLADS:--Polynesian researches, being a complete account of the Society and Friendly Islands	N. Y.	1833	USD -	Unknown
3961	Jarves (J. J.)	SANDWICH ISLADS:--History of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands	Lond.	1843	USD -	Unknown
3962		SANDWICH ISLADS:--SARTAIN'S Magazine		1850	USD -	Unknown
3963	Colton (C.)	SATIRES:--Hypocrisy, a satire	Lond.	1828	USD -	Unknown
3964		SATIRES:--Donovan's Sir Proteus, a satirical ballad, and other tracts	Lond.	1814	USD -	Unknown
3965		SATIRES:--Juvenal, Satyres de, par a Greuze	Par. Didot	1796	USD -	Unknown
3966		SATIRES:--Sketches of young ladies, young couples, and young gentlemen	Lond.		USD -	Unknown
3967		SATIRES:--SAVAGE'S Lays of the father land	N. Y.	1850	USD -	Unknown
3968	Standford (J. T.)	SATIRES:--SAXONY. Rambles in Thuringian Saxony	Lond.	1843	USD -	Unknown
3969		SATIRES:--SCALP hunters, &c.			USD -	Unknown
3970		SATIRES:--SCENES in "Old Ironsides," or, life in a man of war	Phila.	1841	USD -	Unknown
3971		SATIRES:--SCENES where the tempter has triumphed	N. Y.	1849	USD -	Unknown
3972		SATIRES:--SCHILLER'S Poems and ballads	N. Y.	1844	USD -	Unknown
3973		SATIRES:--SCHOOL for husbands, written by a lady	Dublin	1776	USD -	Unknown
3974		SATIRES:--SCHOOL of Fashion	N. Y.	1829	USD -	Unknown
3975		SATIRES:--SCHMID'S Providence illustrated		1841	USD -	Unknown
3976		SATIRES:--SCIENTIFIC Journal for the diffusion of useful knowledge	Bost.	1837	USD -	Unknown
3977		SATIRES:--SCIENTIFIC pamphlets: Of the viper, mad dogs, influence of the sun and moon, discourse on the plague, diseases mentioned in the Scriptures, &c. &c.			USD -	Unknown
3978	J. V. C. Smith, editor	SATIRES:--SCIENTIFIC pamphlets: tracts	Bost.	1834	USD -	Unknown
3979	J. Holbrook and others	SATIRES:--SCIENTIFIC tracts, designed for instruction and entertainment	Bost.	1831	USD -	Unknown
3980		SATIRES:--SCIENTIFIC tracts	Bost.	1836	USD -	Unknown
3981		SATIRES:--SCIENTIFIC Idem			USD -	Unknown
3982		SATIRES:--SCIENTIFIC pamphlets	Lond.	1800	USD -	Unknown
3983	Abercomby, M. D. (P.)	SCOTLAND:--Martial achievements of the Scots nation, being an account of the lives	Edinb.	1711	USD -	Unknown
3984	Burns (Robt.)	SCOTLAND:--Burns (Robt.), Poetical Works	Lond. Pickering	1839	USD -	Unknown
3985	John Barbour	SCOTLAND:--Bruce, The life and acts of the most victorious conquerer, Robert Bruce, king of Scotland	Edinb.	1830	USD -	Unknown
3986	Blind Harry	SCOTLAND:--Wallace. Blind Harry's Wallace; the acts and deeds of the most famous and valiant champion, Sir William Wallace, of Ellerslie	Edinb.	1820	USD -	Unknown
3987	Buchanan (G.)	SCOTLAND:--Mary, Queen of Scots detected		1721	USD -	Unknown
3988	Campbell (Rob.)	SCOTLAND:--Life of John, Duke of Argyle and Greenwich	Lond.	1745	USD -	Unknown
3989	Carrick (J. D.)	SCOTLAND:--Life of Sir William Wallace	Lond.	1840	USD -	Unknown
3990	Chambers (R.)	SCOTLAND:--Biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen	Edinb.	1855	USD -	Unknown
3991		SCOTLAND:--Chambers, History of the rebellion in Scotland	phila.	1833	USD -	Unknown

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.